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Upgrade Movie Storyline. Grey Trace, a stay-at-home mechanic, lives with his wife Asha who works for Cobolt, one of the companies contributing to an increase in human-computer augmentations in a near-future world. One day, Grey asks Asha to help him return a refurbished car to his client Eron Keen, a famous tech innovator in charge of a rival company called Vessel.
While visiting his home, Eron reveals his latest creation, an AI chip called STEM that can serve as an auxiliary brain. On their way home, Grey and Asha’s self-driving car malfunctions and crashes at a homeless camp. Four unknown men then arrive, shooting Asha in the chest and Grey in the neck, severing his spinal cord. Grey watches helplessly as Asha bleeds to death next to him. Grey returns home months later as a wheelchair-bound quadriplegic, now under the care of his mother Pamela. Asha’s death and the inability of Det.
Cortez, who had been assigned to her case, to identify their attackers has caused Grey to sink into an intense depression. After a suicide attempt by overdosing on medication, he is visited by Eron, who offers to surgically implant STEM into Grey’s spine and restore motor functions to his body. Though Grey is initially resistant, Eron successfully persuades him to undergo the surgery.
Upgrade is a 2018 cyberpunk action body horror film written and directed by Leigh Whannell and starring Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, and Harrison Gilbertson. The film follows a man who is implanted with a chip that allows him to control his body after a mugging leaves him paralyzed. The film was produced by Jason Blum, under his Blumhouse Productions banner.
After premiering on 10 March 2018 at South by Southwest, the film was released on 1 June 2018 in the United States by OTL Releasing and Blumhouse Tilt, and on 14 June 2018 in Australia. The film received positive reviews from critics, who called it “one part The Six Million Dollar Man, one part Death Wish revenge fantasy”, and praised the film’s dark humor and action sequences.
Upgrada (2018)
Directed by: Leigh Whannell
Starring: Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, Abby Craden, Harrison Gilbertson, Steve Danielsen, Melanie Vallejo, Benedict Hardie, Richard Anastasios, Christopher Kirby
Screenplay by: Leigh Whannell
Production Design by: Felicity Abbott
Cinematography by: Stefan Duscio
Film Editing by: Andy Canny
Costume Design by: Maria Pattison
Set Decoration by: Katie Sharrock
Art Direction by: Mandi Bialek-Wester, Phoebe Roberts
Music by: Jed Palmer
Distributed by: OTL Releasing
Release Date: June 1, 2018
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